Title insurance companies could not be sued for selling policies in New York at inflated rates that allegedly violated the anti-kickback provision of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in ...

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The state is looking into what appears to be a far-ranging web of kickbacks in a growing part of the home insurance industry, affecting hundreds of thousands of homeowners, increasing foreclosures and hurting real estate investors. The New York State ...

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When a mortgage fee is just a fee and not a kickback to a third party, is it barred by federal law? That was the question before the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court this week. The case of Freeman ...

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NEW YORK CITY — Officials say a longtime adviser to New York's disgraced former state comptroller has agreed to plead guilty in an influence peddling scandal. Political consultant Hank Morris was charged last year ...

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In a move to change the law after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Skilling v. U.S., which limited the reach of the “honest services” statute to bribes and kickbacks, a newly filed bill would expand the statute to cover undisclosed “self-dealing” ...

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NEW YORK — An investment firm founded by President Obama’s former car czar Steven Rattner has agreed to pay $12 million to resolve allegations that it paid kickbacks to drum up business from New York’s giant government pension fund.

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